Explanation
Background
This legislation will authorize the expenditure of up to $45,000,000.00 to increase various contracts for the provision of PASSPORT home care services for older adults in Central Ohio and to declare an emergency.
Ordinance No. 1092-2006 authorized various PASSPORT contracts for a two-year period, July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2008, in accordance with grant requirements. This ordinance authorizes funding for the second year of said contracts.
Emergency action is requested so that there are sufficient funds available to pay for Medicaid home care services through these said contracts within a 30 day period, as required by the grant.
Fiscal Impact
$45,000,000.00 is required and budgeted from the Recreation and Parts Grant Fund to meet the financial obligation for the second year of said contracts.
Title
To authorize the expenditure of up to $45,000,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund in order to increase various contracts for the provision of PASSPORT home care services administered by the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging, and to declare an emergency. ($45,000,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the funds to enter increase said contracts have been made available from the Ohio Department of Aging; now, therefore and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to increase said contracts so there is no interruption of Medicaid-funded services for PASSPORT home care clients.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the expenditure of $45,000,000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and is hereby authorized from Recreation and Parks Grant Fund No. 286, Department No. 51, Object Level Three-3337, Project No. 518139, OCA 511675, to pay the cost thereof, for the second year of the (2) year contract period, July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008.
Section 2. That for the reasons stated ...
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